That accursed mirror. Despite all of my best intentions, I should have never made that thing. I know I needed it to banish those three monsters a longtime ago but...it is as my master said. It is something that shouldn't be meddled with. Clover is always right. WHY?! Why is she always right?! Why is that my research over worlds, magic, and even 'The Key' always wrong?! Why...why does it all amount to nothing? Is that it? Is this research too dangerous to continue?!
No. I believe there is a purpose to this. I know there is something else at work here. If that is the case...I need to see if I can make other mirrors. Perhaps if I can make more portals...maybe that can get me the answers I seek.
-Starswirl, Report 34
"Okay...even I had trouble with what you just said Cadance. Could you say that again?" Twilight said as she glanced back at the glowing mirror. Her and her friends had just spent the last few minutes debating exactly what Shining and Cadance meant in terms of 'a mission of hunting Heartless'.
"Sure." Cadance then tapped the glowing mirror with a slight grin. "For starters, I was skeptical just like you Twilight but...this mirror leads to another world. When auntie first showed it to me, I didn't know what to think. But, she told me: 'I keep at least one guard always watching these mirrors to see if anypony interferes with other worlds and I think somepony is. That's why we need Twilight. It's a keybearer's duty to protect those worlds.' or something to that nature."
"Which Trixie thinks that to be kind of crazy."
"I agree with Trixie." Flash said as he let Spike sit on top of his head. "I'm all for going and fighting something, but even I got to admit that this sounds a little too out there."
"I know it is." Cadance gave a cheeky smile. "But it's the truth. This is one of the duties of a keybearer and Twilight is one of them."
"Yep." Shining continued as he stared at Twilight. "I myself was also skeptical. That and I didn't like the fact that my sister was the one going through this thing but...Princess Celestia has entrusted this task of showing you this to me and Cadance. I can't deny that."
Hearing these words, Twilight knew they were telling the truth. She had known her brother to being the most overprotective pony on the planet and even he was okay with this. Celestia must have shown him something truly different to make him agree. "Okay. I'm in. I just have to hunt Heartless over there, right?"
"Not quite." Cadance shook her head. She then pointed to the top of the mirror. "See that block?" Everypony nodded. "That's a gummi block. It's a special block that activates this mirror. It comes in a set of two."
"Two?"
"Yes." Cadance's horn began to shine as the block was slowly removed from the mirror, only for it to continue glowing. "It is needed to activate and summon the mirror."
"So...we're taking this block with us, aren't we?" Twilight said as Cadance confirmed her thoughts by handing her the block. "And I'm guessing when we cross over to this world, we use this block to summon a mirror back to Equestria."
"That's correct." Cadance nodded. "Don't worry, we can keep the mirror active over here as long as you need it to be active."
Trixie then walked up to Twilight and gave Cadance a deadpan stare, "Let Trixie guess. The enemy has a similar block to the world that this mirror goes to?"
"That's also correct. According to the Starswirl reports auntie gave me, he found that these four mirrors are the only ones that have counterpart mirrors. And..."
"She believes this 'Master' has the other blocks." Shining continued. "And thanks to a dark aura that surrounded this mirror earlier, we know that somepony is doing something with that world. It's why she always keeps a guard watching it."
Trixie scratched her chin in thought. She had an idea of what was really going on. "Trixie is gonna guess that The Master sent a minion to spread Heartless. Some weak pony that's just strong enough to spread a little Darkness but nothing else."
"Like when you were at Canterlot?" Shining replied with a angry scowl.
"No." Trixie shook her head, her expression fading into a slight depression. "Trixie was sent to eliminate the keybearer. The ponies they're using are much weaker. They probably only know basic dark spells so their hearts won't be consumed before they fulfill their duty."
"Huh." Shining tried to think up something else to say, but his marefriend quickly stopped him with a glare. Twilight could only chuckle at the exchange. She knew her brother was already whipped.
Seeing this as a chance to take the initiative, Cadance spoke up, "So...in conclusion, your mission is two things. One, hunt the Heartless and two, find this other block and bring it to us. If we have the other block, The Master can't send ponies to that world. Also, there's one more rule to this..."
"What's that?"
"You can't meddle with the other world. That means you can't tell anypony where you're from. You're only there to defeat the Heartless."
"Alright." Twilight gripped her saddlebag and put the gummi block inside. She adjusted the bag as she looked her companions, seeing if they were ready. Trixie tipped her hat and gave an approving nod. Flash gave a salute, showing he was ready for anything. Spike gave a small salute, mimicking Flash's. All four then faced the mirror in anticipation. "Guess we better start the mission, huh?"
Before they could took another step, Shining and Cadance approached the four and gave them two reassuring grins. Shining patted her sister on the back. "You'll be fine Twily. You're my sister after all."
"I know BBBFF. Thanks." Twilight gave her brother a hug back.
"Good." Shining looked at the others with a smirk. "You three take care of her, alright?"
"We will." Flash said with a nod. "Wish us luck."
"You'll do fine." Cadance said as she spread her wings. A shining smile radiated from her face as she gave them one last nod. "Be careful, Twily and her wonderful companions."
The four looked back at the mirror one last time and with four resounding gulps, leaped into the mirror. What followed was something akin to rollercoaster to the four. Their bodies felt like they were thrust through a tornado as they all screamed through the portal, start to finish.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"
"KUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
One vomit-inducing portal jump later...
"Ow!" Twilight said as her body made a resounding thud on the ground. "Ooohhhh...that hurt. I feel funny..."
She wasn't wrong in that aspect as he eyes opened from the fall. Her head shook left and right as she slowly got up, her eyes adjusting from the impact. She blinked as she stared at the ground before lifting her head up. There, she saw one moogle she knew quite well, staring at her confused. Though, he was confused as well, as his usual green and purple coat was now a green and purple hued shirt on the moogle's body.
"Spike, what happened to your coat?"
"Kupo..." Spike replied, his voice slightly shaking.
"What's wrong Spike? What is..." But she couldn't finish her next question as her eyes drifted to her hoof. Except that it wasn't a hoof anymore. It was a hand. "What in the name of-"
Twilight fell backwards and stared at her hands, her mind in pure confusion. What is this?! Why do my hooves look like a hoof with five tiny long hooves on them?! She looked at her legs, only to see sneakers with white socks in the shoes. It was there that she felt the clothes on her, especially since she was used to going around without clothes except for saddlebags. Why am I fully dressed?! Why do my legs look that?! What am I?!
"Kupo?" Spike said, snapping Twilight back to reality before she could start having a panic attack.
"Yes Spike?" Twilight said as she looked back at the floating creature. It was then that a certain thing dawned on her. Trixie and Flash! They were supposed to be with me! Twilight began to glance around, looking for friends. Don't tell me they got separated when we- her thought was interrupted by the sight of two other individuals both shaking their heads, just a few feet away from her.
"Uh..." Twilight wasn't sure what to say at the sight in front of her. One of the two she was looking at had a light blue shirt and skirt on. The skirt showed a wand just like Trixie's cutie mark along with light blue sneakers and a big puffy blue and purple hat with stars all over the headwear. The other was a boy, equipped with a white t-shirt that a design of a shield with a lightning bolt on it. He had brown cargo shorts on and brown sneakers. She guessed it had to be Flash, who else would have that shirt? Well, that and the fact that on his back was his usual sword and shield.
"Trixie? Flash? Is that you?"
"Twilight? What is...huh?!" Flash gasped as her stared at her, his eyes squinting. "Is that you? You look...I don't know. What happened to you?"
"I was about to ask you the same thing." Twilight replied as she looked at the other, who was now waking up.
"Ooohhh...Trixie feels like Trixie's gonna hurl." she said as she shook her head in discomfort. "What happened?" Her eyes blinked several times as she began to look around, only to see Twilight and Flash in their new forms. "What the-who are you two?!"
"Hi Trixie." Twilight waved her hand. "It's me. Twilight."
Trixie squinted her eyes, trying to look Twilight up and down. "Twilight? Is that really you? What happened?!"
"Look at your hooves."
"Huh?"
"Just do it."
"Okay, but Trixie doesn't see how that's-what in the-AAAAAAaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!" she yelled as she began swatting her hands around. "What is this?! What is Trixie?! What happened to Trixie's hooves?!"
"Calm down." Flash replied with a bonk to her head. Twilight chuckled at the sight as Trixie yelled back at him.
Twilight continued to watch the banter until she noticed something else. The four had landed in a small but not dense forest. In fact, the trees quickly made her jump as she noticed they weren't regular pine trees or basic forest foliage. They were palm trees and plenty of them. She crawled to look over the nearby bush and saw a large beach in the distance. Oh wow, wherever we are, it sure is tropical looking. I've never been to the beach before. I've read about them though.
As she continued to look around, she saw another similar being to the ones they had become walk by, not noticing them. But what intrigued her was that the individual was bipedal. Wait a minute...does that mean I'm a biped now? She looked at her new feet and gave a shrug. Might as well find out.
Slowly ascending up, she quickly noticed her weight supported such a stance. Her arms flailed just a little but before she stood perfectly still on two legs. Guess I am. And looking at the other that passed by us, I'm guessing that I'm in a filly body version of...whatever species this is.
"Twilight? Why are you standing like that?" Flash commented as his argument with Trixie ended.
"Trixie agrees. Why are you doing that?"
"Um..." Twilight rubbed her chin. "I think whatever we turned into are bipedal."
"Bipedal?" Trixie asked with a raised eyebrow. "Trixie needs to stand on two legs now?"
Twilight shrugged. "I guess? Go ahead and try it."
A few minutes later, all three were on two feet instead of four. Flash began doing stretches while Twilight and Trixie just flexed their fingers. They were fascinated about how flexible they were. Flash then started to pat his back, only to let out a groan. "Girls?"
"Yes?" Twilight and Trixie responded in unison.
"I don't have my wings, do I?"
"Nope." Trixie bluntly replied.
"Sorry Flash."
"Figures. Just like you two don't have your horns."
"Yeah..." Twilight groaned as she felt the top of her head, only to feel nothing but hair. "I already miss my magic."
"You can still use the keyblade magic, correct? And you can use that dark blade, right?"
Twilight and Trixie both summoned their weapons, surprised they appeared in their hands instead of their mouths. After a few minutes, they both summoned a small blast of ice magic. (Fire and Thunder were too dangerous for a forest at the moment.)
"Guess that still works." Twilight said as she desummoned her keyblade. "So...what do you think we should do first? I honestly think we should find out where we are and what we are. I mean, I think we're somewhere tropical, but I honestly no idea where it would be or what it's called."
Flash pulled out his blade and tried to swing it, only for it fall out of his hand. He wasn't used to gripping it with fingers. He looked back up at the girls and asked them to try to swing their weapons around. They resummoned them and also had the same problems. Seeing this, he grimaced and said, "I think we better figure out how our bodies work with combat before we do anything else."
The girls looked at each other and thought about them trying to take on the Heartless while in this form. They looked back at Flash and said, "Agreed."
Meanwhile, thousands upon thousands of miles away...
A giant futuristic hallway that was painted a distinct shade of blue carried a great deal of beings inside it. These beings were alien in nature, resembling any manner of animal, creature or even machine. But that was not the focus of what was happening in this massive hallway. No, a select few stood before a medium-sized, four eyed being. The being in question had a long white lab coat on, his expression was that of slight curiosity and confusion to why he was there.
Though to be fair, he knew. He just honestly didn't want to admit he knew why he was there. As he continued to stare a small group of different sized aliens in front of him, a long, tall, and very slender green alien stepped forth. A strong authoritative voice expelled from her mouth as she began to speak.
"Read the charges."
A giant shark-like alien behind her pulled out a small sheet. His blue coated eyes skimmed the sheet as he spoke. "Doctor Jumba Jokeba, lead scientist of Galaxy Defense Industries. You stand before this council, accused of illegal genetic experimentation."
As his statement finished, a loud blaring noise turning every head in the room to look behind Jumba as a large ship floated into the room. As the ship slowly approached the center, the councilwoman spoke again.
"How do you plead?"
"Not guilty." Jumba responded, folding his arms. "My experiments are only theoretical and within completely legal boundaries."
The councilwoman leaned in, her expression unchanging. The large ship floated over Jumba as a claw with a small capsule slowly descended down. "We believe you actually created something."
"Created something?!" Jumba gasped, "Ha! But that would be irresponsible and unethical. I would never ever-"
The claw opened the capsule, showing a small blue creature in a red jumpsuit. A loud GASP!!! could be heard throughout the room as the capsule revealed the creature.
"-make more than one."
"Grrr...rawr! Rawr rawr!" The little creature yelled, it's mouth opening, showing all of it's teeth. It quickly hopped back, it's four arms pushing the side of the capsule as it headbutted the glass, only to fall over from the failed attempt. The giant shark-like alien behind the council leaned in with an expression of anger and rage.
"What is that monstrosity?!"
"MONSTROSITY?!?!?!" Jumba exclaimed, as if he were insulted. He quickly pointed back at the captured alien and began to explain. "What you see before you is a first of a new species. I call it, Experiment 626." A giant grin shined on his face. "He is bulletproof, fireproof, and can think faster than supercomputer. He can see in the dark and move objects three thousand times his size! His only instinct...to destroy everything he touches! Hahaha!" Jumba exclaimed as he fell over in fit of joy.
"So it is a monster." the councilwoman said, her expression showing a bit more anger.
"Just a little one." Jumba replied, his face still shining with happiness.
While the trial continued, one figure sat in the balcony, a jet black coat covering their body. As he watched the demonstration, the situation made him think about all the players. The mad scientist, the morally just councilwoman, the anger-filled fish alien and the illegal creature. All these sights intrigued him. Soon, the individual got up and began to leave the room. A few moments later, a dark flame appeared in his hand and he began to speak into it. "Servant, I am ready to report."
"Go ahead Party Favor."
"You asked me to find a being with evil in them for the Heartless, correct?"
"Yes. Evil hearts make great puppets for the darkness. Have you found one?"
Party Favor showed a small grin as a dark red mist covered his soulless, almost completely dead eyes. He gave a cold but still grinning stare into the flame. "I believe I have."
"Good." The Servant then shined a smile as the pony stared right into Party's eyes. Party's grin began to fade as his eyes slowly showed a little life, but not much. The Servant chuckled at the sight as another flame appeared in it's other hoof. "Now remember my pawn. You only exist to have other individuals spread Heartless, nothing else. I've given you a little freedom with your mind, but remember, your heart is mine. Now, what is your mission?"
"Spread Heartless to distract the keybearer and Celestia." Party replied in a deadpan tone.
"And if the keybearer appears?"
"Destroy her."
A good choice for a start for the 1st movie. P.S though if I were you I would select only worlds that haven't been shown in Kingdom Hearts. And perhaps you could also consider worlds that never have been movies. Such as Kim Possible or the American Dragon. Just to make things more interesting. Especially the later one because they would still be ponies but then in a world the mythical suppose to hide from humanity. Just thinking about the chaos they would cause when walking into that world without that knowledge would make a very interesting story.
As for the movie worlds my two favourite would be "The great Mouse Detective" and "Robin hood." Why well if there are worlds were they would remain pony forms then that would be it. And lion king I guess but that world already has been appeared several times in Kingdom Hearts. ^^
7905122 I'm gonna do both actually. I'll do both KH worlds and Disney worlds that haven't appeared. After all, I did 100 Acre Wood. I will say this, I've going to do more Disney worlds that haven't been used, but I wanna use a few that are my favorites in the KH universe as well.
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There is one more idea I might give you. We have organization 13 and Disney Villains as major antoganist in the Kingdom Heart series. So my suggestion would be make 3 instead of 2. What I'm saying is make a organization for Disney Villains, Ponies (You already have that covered) and one for final fantasy. Just imagen Sephirot working alongside with Kefka would be in my honest opinion so awesome.
7906510 That's...not gonna happen. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind doing a Disney villain gauntlet but...the worlds I have them going to wouldn't fully fit that. Also, that's a 'no' on the FF villains since one, if you've read a blog post about my love of FF15 I did a while back, you'll know I HATE FF6 with a burning passion, its my least favorite FF of them all. I HATE THAT ******* GAME! Second, the worlds I'm going to have Twilight and company go to aren't all Disney. I'm gonna go outside the box from what KH regularly does and Twilight will go to FF worlds. (Don't ask for spoilers on that one)
Also, The Master, The Servant and Starlight Glimmer along with one more pony will be the main antagonists of this story. As to who three of their identities are...that's for later. (They all are mlp characters though)
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Okay I just recently have started to watch you and read your story so I was oblivious to your hatred for the game let alone that it is blog post more then a month ago.
That said everyone has there own taste and opinion. To me FF6 is actually the best of them all, because I played the game when it was 1st released and actually replayed it a month ago. Because I was trying to find out why I found the latest FF games after 9 so lack lustre. For me it has the best music of all the games. It gives the sense of something epic. Also let me remind you that it was build for snes a gen 2 console. It wouldn't be fair to compare it to later consoles considering it limits. I haven't played the game on the releases they made so I'm unaware if they improved it on the remakes.
Second it has the best story of all because it the outcome was completely unpredictable for its time. I was expecting indeed that emperor was the ultimate bad guy and not Kefka but to my surprise not only did the game gave us a plot twist the heroes actually failed to safe the world and it got completely destroyed. The party is completely emotional broken that one even commits suicide. I have played many games were you either prevent the apocalypse or return world back from the apocalypse but rarely did I play a game were as heroes you fail. And then emotional back lass as all hope is lost, morale completely gone. The heroes reached completely rock bottom and yet they still climb back up and face against truly impossible odds and become victories. No other FF game in my opinion has ever reached such drama and emotions or played plot twists so well. Again this is my opinion.
Third I really like Kefka as a villain, he's true psychopath. And has a true personality many of the other main bad guys are really bland. Also Kefka isn't clown he's a general. Do you even know why dresses like one? Simple he can't comprehend compassion. He's totally unable to feel that. He's inside truly miserable and lash out on the world because of it. The clown outfit is his way to hide it.
Fourth I can understand your problem with grinding but it's not the worst FF when it comes to grinding. As for getting stronger items faster I assume your talking about the open world you get after the Kefka destroys the world. Yeah I can see your point here though most of the latter FF were less open world especially FF13 which you placed higher so isn't that a bit contradictory?
But hey that's my opinion about the game and why it's for me the best FF game ever. I can understand you have different taste and opinion of FF6 and perhaps understand it's possible for you to hate the game. If we were all the same the world would be a real boring place.
7906894 Okay, I like grinding. I'm a big fan of Disgaea games, which are super grind heavy, so its not that. The problem I have with that game is that one, I don't like using over three-fourths of the cast. I only like the Blue Mage(which is a class I NEVER use in FF), the moogle, and bodybuilder guy. All the others I find either don't get enough power even with grinding or just suck in general. I find the villain absolutely boring and doesn't make any sense since you beat like 3 times before he just comes in and says, "Oh, I'm awesome and I'm gonna destroy everything!" and everyone is like "Okay!" At least with something like Sephiroth or Kuja, you saw the true threat at all times. Nothing could beat them till the end of the game.
I could go on and on, I don't like the soundtrack, I find FF5 to be the best SNES soundtrack for FF. I don't like the story, I can't believe you didn't see Kefka as the main villain. The emperor doesn't matter except for like 2 or 3 scenes. I don't like the battle system it uses for the characters even though I will admit FF9, one of my absolute favorite games of all time, is the same system but done SO MUCH BETTER!
Also, I have to disagree, in terms of games after FF6 that aren't the FF11 and FF14 which I don't play since...you know. They're different. But games after that except FF8 are good in my opinion. I usually enjoy those more than the old ones. (FF4, 6 and 8 are the worst in my opinion.)
And...yeah, I'm not gonna rant. Let's just say I hate that ******* piece of trash, ******* garbage dumpster **** fire that should have never ******* existed game and leave it at that.
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But isn't FF7 not the same with only a smaller cast I mean many FF games have the same thing that you have more characters then you can wield in active combat.
If you really played the game then you know that the story didn't go like that. Kefka started as joke character at beginning but each encounter he became more menacing and dangerous. That's called character development. Also he become a god by fluke. He never planned it, it was just a surge that came to him to betray the emperor. I seriously thought he was one of psychotic characters loyal only to one person. Seen that many times in movies. I that he was the sadistic henchman trope. There were no clues given in the game that Kefka was planning to betray the emperor.
Precisely and that's why I find them both boring because it's so cliché. I have seen it in so many video games the big bad guy that none is able to defeat until our hero(es) come safe the day. Dragon Quest, Zelda, Chrono Trigger, etc... they all follow the same format. I like FF6 because the true villain starts so weak but gets strong.
P.S Would it surprise you if I say I find FF10 the weakest of all FF games when taking in consideration when it was released? And do you know why? I don't like major villain both his personality so flat and his plan totally stupid. He wants people to stop suffering by killing everyone yet it's stated that when people die they become monsters unless a summoner release their souls from their death bodies so they can move on. But there are no summoners left if he would succeed and kill every thus dooming everyone in a eternal strife against each other as monsters. There is totally no logic to his claims he wants to make the suffering stop. And with the exception of Auron I find all the heroes, flat, jerks and/or crybabies. For the story is the most important of any game next online to game mechanics and boy the story and characters of FF10 were so terrible.
7907045 I'm not gonna go any further. I have played the game and I know what happens. Even if Kefka gets what he gets by accident, that doesn't mean I like him. I saw the betrayal coming and the 'ultimate power surge where Kefka suddenly wins' garbage coming. If anything, I think it destroys his character as he just becomes a standard FF villain like Exdeath of FF5. I like Sephiroth and Kuja because they straight come out and are intimidating, evil and you know that no one can regularly stand up to them. I also really like their backstories, and I see those as their character development. Sorry to say, you aren't going to change my opinion on this game. I hate its guts and everything about it, villain and everything. As for the FF6 cast thing, I found most of them worthless for a cast of like 12? FF7 has half the cast and they're all useful...except Cait Sith.
Also, I'll agree that FF10 has a bad story and bad cast of characters...except Auron. Despite that, I think the battle system and sphere grid work in that game. That's the only thing I like about that game. (Which is a lot more than a few other FF games)
Just goes to show ya that I'm not an old school RPG gamer that much. Granted, my favorite RPGs of all time are FF7, FF9 and Earthbound but Earthbound is a very VERY different old school RPG. I do like most other retro games and I really liked Chrono Trigger, but I'm not super crazy about it. Mainly due to the fact that I find Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross to be about the same in my opinion.
7926849 You'll see what worlds we'll be seeing.